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CVE-2026-43063 (GCVE-0-2026-43063)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-05 15:23 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:25
VLAI
Title
xfs: don't irele after failing to iget in xfs_attri_recover_work
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfs: don't irele after failing to iget in xfs_attri_recover_work xlog_recovery_iget* never set @ip to a valid pointer if they return an error, so this irele will walk off a dangling pointer. Fix that.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: ae673f534a30976ce5e709c4535a59c12b786ef3 , < b5c5a50c2f513d4a13a6763564a07b470e69cc5a (git)
Affected: ae673f534a30976ce5e709c4535a59c12b786ef3 , < a1a5df1038f0b3c560d204270373621a4e622808 (git)
Affected: ae673f534a30976ce5e709c4535a59c12b786ef3 , < 40082d08b638485cbaa543dc8087a3d1844d6f08 (git)
Affected: ae673f534a30976ce5e709c4535a59c12b786ef3 , < 70685c291ef82269180758130394ecdc4496b52c (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.10
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.10 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.80 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.21 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.11 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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